trackcharlie

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[–] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

And it's clear you haven't actually read the paper you're linking given that in that very investigation overview they describe the employers as the issue and not the industry as a whole.

Also, I like how you've just ignored all my notes about your own use of slave labour and child labour in your food and the device your using to continue bitching about the problem as well as misrepresenting the issues noted in the very paper you linked.

I'm going to chalk this up to incompetence and block you, but yes "well played" you "definitely got me".

By the way, since it's clear you did not read the paper:

“The safety of young workers and significant reductions in child labor violations are top priorities for the U.S. Department of Labor,” said Principal Deputy Wage and Hour Division Administrator Jessica Looman. “Employers who choose to hire young workers have a legal responsibility to know and abide by the federal laws that govern their employment. These obligations include eliminating all exposures to hazardous occupations and prohibited equipment, and preventing young workers from suffering serious injuries or worse.”

In case you can't understand what is being said in the paper, the TL:DR is "Bad employers paying off corrupt politicians to weaken employment restrictions for young workers and the same bad employers ignoring or reducing safety training and safety equipment".

Contrary to you, I actually do investigate the supply lines and employment conditions of just about everything I use and consume, I can't change anything about it because it needs to be a group vote to make change, but I at least educate myself on these things.

Again, unlike you.

[–] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

Blaming the meat industry for underage workers dying is a false equivalency and false dilemma. You are a fool* to equivocate these issues.

Meat isn't the problem, incompetent politicians and garbage employers are the problem but you're pretending the meat industry is the only industry engaging in child labour practices.

I bet you eat chocolate as well, and spoiler alert, child labour AND slave labour is involved in ALL chocolate acquisition, not to mention avocado and large scale vegetable farming uses child labour daily, but I don't hear you bitching about that, I hear you blaming "meat" and attempting to guilt anyone who consumes meat into believing they inherently support child labour when they buy it.

Meanwhile you're using an apple or android phone or a computer of any kind to communicate, meaning you have supported child and slave labour which acquired the raw materials to create the device you are using to bitch about this topic and misdirect people into believing your extremely perverted view of the world.

The sheer incompetence of your presentation here is dripping in irony and is denoting an unparalleled lack of education or an unbelievable level of intellectual dishonesty.

Edit: *removed an overly aggressive insult to prevent mods from being salty.

[–] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 9 months ago

"The world of tomorrow, today"

[–] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

I don't read usernames and didn't read yours until you mentioned it, and before that I knew you were vegan because you were using strawman in conjunction with a false dilemma and faulty generalization fallacies in order to push a 'meat bad' argument.

The most common argumentative fallacies used by vegans, peta, and trolls.

[–] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The concept and implementation of TPM use has been a joke since inception.

veracrypt or luks; bitlocker is a total joke.

[–] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's reality now days. \o/

e. also the artist created the image in 2008. Right after the world economy died and has been on QE and 'rescue operations' by various central banks since. :/

[–] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The irony of you saying I am the one being pedantic is seriously hilarious.

You should probably work on your reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

The entire premise of your argument is 'only criminals use this tool' or 'the majority of users of this tool are criminals' when that is fundamentally and objectively incorrect.

You clearly lack any serious experience in computer science, let alone cybersecurity, and it shows.

[–] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 59 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Your comment had me remember this image by the artist EranFowler:

[–] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

A tool is just that, a tool.

Just because what you consider immoral or moral individuals use it doesn't change the inherent nature of the tool to be used for specific circumstances. You'll also notice I didn't put any deterministic language when describing a penetration tester, because regardless of what side of the law they're on they're still cybersecurity professionals, it's just that one side happens to pay better.

A knife can be used to dissect as well as it can be used to mutilate or even vivisect. How a tool is used is determined by the user not the creator.

Complaining that a few people use the item for nefarious purposes when the majority of problematic cases are issues at the developer level for the items being affected (i.e. vehicles) is extremely short sighted. Are you going to restrict all PC's because they can be used for network intrusion?

Are you going to limit access to the internet because the freely available information can teach anyone to create a dirty bomb?

The premise of your outlook is inherently erroneous in my opinion.

[–] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Direct quote from https://flipperzero.one/:

Flipper Zero Multi-tool Device for Geeks Flipper Zero is a portable multi-tool for pentesters and geeks in a toy-like body. It loves hacking digital stuff, such as radio protocols, access control systems, hardware, and more. It's fully open-source and customizable, so you can extend it in whatever way you like.

Flipper Zero is a portable multi-tool for pentesters and geeks

multi-tool for pentesters

pentesters

Pentester or penetration tester is a cybersecurity professional that can be located on red team (offence) or blue team (defence) and works to determine potential vectors for attack that need to be rectified or exploited, depending on who they're working for and what their goals are for their employer.

[–] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

If you have experience and effective training browsing the dark web, there are several examples of your concerns already coming alive.

Bot farms have levelled up to ai farms, with various models being made as 'specialist' ai's for things like credit card theft, network intrusion, malware, etc, and from when I last looked into it a few months ago they had already moved on to attempt to get all the specialists to start training general purpose models.

Things are not looking particularly great and I would posit if AGI does happen in our lifetime it's not going to be because anyone alive actually intended that to happen, but the criminals running a wide variety of specialists train a general purpose ai with intentions to use it for easy money.

I usually chirp back with 'nothing we have now is really AI' but I can't seriously take that view with some of the things being tested by some criminal organizations these days and there's not really a way to stop this from happening.

[–] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

As someone with military experience, military members, especially flag officers, are not the brightest bulbs in the world and are easily awed by extremely simple tech demonstrations.

It's already too late, make sure you've got your favorite food and beverages ready because several countries already have autonomous weapons being live tested in the middle east, and from my understanding of the situation, the new jets already have some hilariously incompetent AI in them (in simulation, the air force contractor that was in control kept giving ethical barriers to objective completion and the ai went to kill the controller to more easily complete the objective...)

e. public sources: https://www.npr.org/2021/06/01/1002196245/a-u-n-report-suggests-libya-saw-the-first-battlefield-killing-by-an-autonomous-d

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/air-force-artificial-intelligence-drone/

(The above are public articles maintained to minimize concern surrounding the tech which is why the air force almost immediately walked back their accidental admissions with the following statement:

“The Department of the Air Force has not conducted any such AI-drone simulations and remains committed to ethical and responsible use of AI technology. This was a hypothetical thought experiment, not a simulation,” said Air Force spokesperson Ann Stefanek. "

From my understanding, of course take this with a grain of salt since I'm an anon on a message board, we did do this.)

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